Breaking News: Gingerbread 2.3 running on Droid Eris

And just like that we are already seeing Gingerbread running on devices. XDA member punk.kaos has been able to build Gingerbread from the SDK for the Eris within hours of it being released. The rom is in no way a daily build as quoted in the OP

This is a VERY early testing build of Gingerbread.
Basically its for playing with only!
Don’t expect it to work, be fast, or be useful for any reason.

We will have more updates in the coming days, to learn more and try it out at your own risk check out the discussion thread

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